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Mortgage Insurance Portfolio Cancellations and Principal Payments

Mortgage insurance portfolio cancellations and principal payments are reductions to insurance in force from policy cancellation, mortgage amortization, and related runoff items.

By Lee BaileyPublished Sep 24, 2026
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18 connected conceptsPart of the reviewed Mortgage Insurance Operating Economics; issuer definitions remain distinct where disclosed.
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  1. Why it matters
  2. Investor caution
  3. Part of the Mortgage Insurance Operating Economics
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mortgage insurance portfolio cancellations and principal payments are reductions to insurance in force from policy cancellation, mortgage amortization, and related runoff items.

Why it matters

The runoff measure is the counterweight to new insurance written in the IIF growth bridge. MGIC reported $52.5 billion of cancellations, principal payments, and other reductions in 2025 against $60.2 billion of NIW, producing a $7.7 billion increase in primary IIF.

Investor caution

Runoff is not automatically negative. Refinancing, borrower equity growth, normal amortization, and claim resolution can all remove insurance from the book. The earnings effect depends on premium type, policy age, pricing, and the risk profile of the business that remains.

Primary source: MGIC Investment Corporation 2025 Form 10-K.

Part of the Mortgage Insurance Operating Economics

Connect new insured business, portfolio runoff and persistency, insured exposure, premium yield, credit performance, and PMIERs capital capacity to understand private mortgage-insurance economics.

How the model fits together
  • New business quality and insured-book growth: New insurance written adds insured principal to the portfolio, while cancellations and principal payments reduce the existing book. FICO, LTV, DTI, and purchase mix describe important underwriting characteristics of new business, and the resulting flows determine insurance in force and risk in force without making principal balance equivalent to insured loss exposure.
  • Persistency and premium monetization: Annual persistency describes how much insurance remains from the prior year. In-force portfolio yield measures the underlying direct premium rate on the insured book, total direct premium yield incorporates direct premium adjustments, and net premium yield reflects the additional effect of ceded and assumed premium economics.
  • Credit performance and capital capacity: Insured-loan count is the denominator behind delinquency statistics, delinquent inventory and the delinquency rate show emerging credit stress, and claims received inventory is a later-stage credit measure. PMIERs available assets and excess available assets connect that risk profile to GSE-required capital capacity without equating regulatory eligibility assets with distributable cash.

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